This president does not need intel briefersAccording to the public schedule of the president, the last time the Obama attended his daily intelligence meeting was Sept. 5 — a week before Islamist radicals stormed our embassy in Cairo and terrorists killed our ambassador to Tripoli.

House approves new Stolen Valor bill
The legislation would apply to specific awards, and would apply to anyone who lies about their receipt of such awards with the intent of obtaining money, property or some other tangible benefit.

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Re: GenX & Climate
‘”Climate change is an extremely complex issue, and many Generation X adults do not see it as an immediate problem that they need to address,” Miller said.’

Rapid Climate Changes lead to failed agriculture systems, which leads to wars. Add Nukes to the equation and …well Nuclear Armageddon is why I freak out about something which otherwise takes tens of thousands of years to sort itself out.

“Occupy activists plead guilty to conspiracy and weapons of mass destruction charges”
Even considering media bias, I’m still dumbfounded that this story has so little media attention.

“This president does not need intel briefers”
Great, after sh** gets real, NOW he loses interest…

“House approves new Stolen Valor bill”
The original one should have stood. It was challenged on the auspices that it restricted freedom of speech, but the language of the bill never said anything about legislating honesty — only specific legislation against people committing a specific act of *fraud*.

“JSF – What’s Really Happening”
The F-35 doesn’t just fail all that detailed stuff — the very essence of it’s design is flawed. Take, for example, it’s Wing Loading (which governs maneuverability, and less is better); at 29300lbs, with 460ft2 of wing area, an F-35A with a full tank of gas has a wing loading of 103.91lb/ft2. That’s worse than an F-14A Tomcat, and the F-35A in question doesn’t even have any missiles yet!
By contrast, and F-16C with full internal fuel, 2 Sidewinders, and 2 AMRAAMs weighs 27200lbs. With 300ft2 of wing area, the resulting wing loading is 90.66lb/ft2; 10% less than an F-35A with nothing but fuel.
There’s also the little matter of Transient Maneuvering, the ability to blend one maneuver into another. The effectiveness of an aircraft at doing this is determined by one thing alone; weight, and as with wing loading, less is better. Recall that an empty F-35A weighs almost 2000lbs more than an F-16C with a full supply of fuel and 4 missiles? With a full stock of fuel (and *still* no missiles yet), and F-35A weighs 47500lbs — only 2500lbs short of it’s 50000lb maximum take-off weight!
Or to put it another way, the weight of an empty F-35A is within a few-hundred pounds of the empty weight of an F-15C Eagle.
And how about the F-35A’s payload of 13000lbs, compared to the F-16C it “replaces” at 16400lbs? The ferry range of an F-35A at 1125 miles, versus 2610 miles for an F-16C? How about the F-16’s proven Mach 2 top speed, the F-16’s 40% greater thrust/weight ratio (the 43000lb F135 never existed, and it produces just 35000lbs of thrust — just like the F119 used on the F-22A, which is identical except for the nozzle), it’s higher-capacity weapon stations than the F-35A (4500lbs, compared to 3000lbs for the strongest on the F-35A), it’s bubble canopy (the F-35s have clamshell canopies, whose disastrous showing in combat over Vietnam is why the F-14, F-14, F-16, YF-17, F-/A-19, F-20, F-22, and YF-22 were all given bubble canopies — as do the Mig-29, Su-27, Su-47, Mig 1.44 MFI, J-10, J-20, J-21, Mirage 2000, Typhoon, Rafale, Gripen, Tejas, etc.), it’s 1200-mile range on internal fuel that proved to be only 850 miles (on 18500lbs of internal fuel — more than the maximum internal AND external fuel of an F-16C!), or 16-times-higher cost-per-flight-hour?
I could go on and on. It’s almost like the F-35 was designed by a company that hadn’t introduced a new production fighter aircraft since the 1950s!
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Hey, wait a second…